Farthing Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Farthing Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-flagstone-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Farthing Cottage, Watts Green, Chearsley, HP18 0DD
- OS grid reference
- SP 718 104
- Coordinates
- 51.7885, -0.9592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farthing Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a 20th-century addition. It is timber-framed with colourwashed brick and plaster infill, and has a thatched roof. The cottage originally had two bays and is one-and-a-half storeys high. There is a blocked central door, along with two-light horizontal sliding sashes and two-light eyebrow windows. A one-and-a-half storey addition with a half-hipped roof covered in old tiles is located to the right, featuring colourwashed render and a door. A timber-framed rear wing is also present. The cottage is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Volume 1, page 87, and is documented in the Monument Record as number 4.
Local climate
Farthing Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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